Code First: Girls - Friends and Resources

Here at Code First: Girls we have met some amazing organisations in recent years who help people develop their skills and find tech jobs.Here's just a selection of some that we've worked with, and that you might find helpful.

The Launchpad is a place where students, faculty, and the wider Oxford entrepreneurial community can meet to collaborate, create and strengthen ventures, as well as to share knowledge, practice and connections.

Conferences

The International JavaScript Conference is the place where renowned JavaScript experts from around the world meet. Join them and master your JS skills.

JAX London (paid) - October jaxlondon.com​JAX London (9-12 Oct.) is a four-day conference for cutting-edge software engineers and enterprise-level professionals. JAX brings together the world’s leading innovators in the fields of JAVA, microservices, continuous delivery and DevOps.

​Women of Silicon roundaboutwas created to inspire and connect women working in technology. Since its inception in October 2015, Women of Silicon Roundabout has become the UK’s leading forum for Women in Tech. They also now run events in Scotland and Sydney.

Industry organisations

Tech London Advocates is a private sector led coalition of over 1,800 expert individuals from the tech sector and broader community who have committed to championing London’s potential as a world-class hub for tech and digital businesses.

Learn wider skills

Digital Business Academy has been created by Tech City UK in partnership with leading educational institutions, businesses and organisations, to give you the business skills you need to succeed in a digital world.

We offer online courses, designed by experts and free to participants.

wearedotdotdot is run by Centre for London and developed in collaboration with partners from across the tech community. The platform is an online directory of Digital Learning Programmes that develop digital skills and help people access jobs in Tech City.

Geekettes are a community of women dedicated to helping aspiring and established female tech innovators. We believe that the more women get involved with tech design, development and leadership, the more successful and diverse our companies and products will be in the future​

Stemettes mission is to inspire the next generation of females into science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) fields by showing them the amazing women already in STEM via a series of panel events, hackathons, exhibitions, and mentoring schemes.

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Sparta Global spartaglobal.com​​Sparta Global are a tech consultancy who work with businesses across a wide range of industries. They run free 3 month bootcamps at their training academy to get people up to junior dev level, which is followed by a further 2-year paid role working with their clients.